✦ The Guilt Spiral Interruptor ✦

Stop the bedtime spiral before it steals your whole night.

You know the spiral.It starts with one thought: “I should have played with them more.”
Then it spreads: “I’m always on my phone. I’m not present. I’m failing.”And suddenly it’s midnight and you’re lying in bed cataloging every way you’re not enough.I made a prompt that interrupts it.
One question you can ask ChatGPT (free version) that breaks the spiral before it takes you under.Use it tonight. See if it helps.
If it does, I have 9 more for every other moment guilt shows up.

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✦ How It Works ✦

When guilt shows up, I don't fight it. I ask it questions.Not to make it go away — to make it quieter.I use ChatGPT (or my notes app, or I just say them out loud) to
break the spiral before it takes me under.Here's one you can use tonight:

Ask me 3 questions that help me end today with grace instead of guilt. Questions that focus on what I did accomplish, what I can let go of, and what actually matters. Make them gentle.

Copy that. Paste it. Let it talk you down.It won’t erase guilt.
But it gives you something to do with it that isn’t spiraling.

✦ The Mom Guilt Detox Drop ✦

This was one of ten prompts from The Mom Guilt Detox Drop — Small Prompts for Lighter Days.Different moments. Different spirals. Same exhale.Want the rest?

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— Shae, from Motherboard HQ

Because motherhood isn’t broken.
It’s just overloaded.